New York World’s Fair 1940: Manmade Lightning. Taken from a photo album kept by an unidentified young couple documenting their vacations between 1936 and 1940, including a substantial number of photos of the 1939–40 New York World’s Fair. American. Image © 2024 James E. Arsenault & Company. Fair use license. via https://www.jamesarsenault.com/pages/books/5494/photo-album-including-1939-40-world-s-fair-content-photographs
Castle and volcano? New York World’s Fair 1939-1940 . Taken from a photo album kept by an unidentified young couple documenting their vacations between 1936 and 1940, including a substantial number of photos of the 1939–40 New York World’s Fair. American. Image © 2024 James E. Arsenault & Company. Fair use license. via https://www.jamesarsenault.com/pages/books/5494/photo-album-including-1939-40-world-s-fair-content-photographs 1939 World’s Fair. Labor Day Trains on Parade. Taken from a photo album kept by an unidentified young couple documenting their vacations between 1936 and 1940, including a substantial number of photos of the 1939–40 New York World’s Fair. American. Image © 2024 James E. Arsenault & Company. Fair use license. via https://www.jamesarsenault.com/pages/books/5494/photo-album-including-1939-40-world-s-fair-content-photographs World’s Fair 1940. Taken from a photo album kept by an unidentified young couple documenting their vacations between 1936 and 1940, including a substantial number of photos of the 1939–40 New York World’s Fair. American. Image © 2024 James E. Arsenault & Company. Fair use license. via https://www.jamesarsenault.com/pages/books/5494/photo-album-including-1939-40-world-s-fair-content-photographs Attendees at the World’s Fair. Taken from a photo album kept by an unidentified young couple documenting their vacations between 1936 and 1940, including a substantial number of photos of the 1939–40 New York World’s Fair. American. Image © 2024 James E. Arsenault & Company. Fair use license. via https://www.jamesarsenault.com/pages/books/5494/photo-album-including-1939-40-world-s-fair-content-photographs 1939 World’s Fair, Labor Day” Russia (left) and Italia (right) pavilions. Taken from a photo album kept by an unidentified young couple documenting their vacations between 1936 and 1940, including a substantial number of photos of the 1939–40 New York World’s Fair. American. Image © 2024 James E. Arsenault & Company. Fair use license. via https://www.jamesarsenault.com/pages/books/5494/photo-album-including-1939-40-world-s-fair-content-photographs The City of Light presented by Consolidated Edison. Taken from a photo album kept by an unidentified young couple documenting their vacations between 1936 and 1940, including a substantial number of photos of the 1939–40 New York World’s Fair. American. Image © 2024 James E. Arsenault & Company. Fair use license. via https://www.jamesarsenault.com/pages/books/5494/photo-album-including-1939-40-world-s-fair-content-photographs United States pavilion. Taken from a photo album kept by an unidentified young couple documenting their vacations between 1936 and 1940, including a substantial number of photos of the 1939–40 New York World’s Fair. American. Image © 2024 James E. Arsenault & Company. Fair use license. via https://www.jamesarsenault.com/pages/books/5494/photo-album-including-1939-40-world-s-fair-content-photographs World’s Fair 1940. Corning Glass (left) and United States Steel (right) pavilions. Taken from a photo album kept by an unidentified young couple documenting their vacations between 1936 and 1940, including a substantial number of photos of the 1939–40 New York World’s Fair. American. Image © 2024 James E. Arsenault & Company. Fair use license. via https://www.jamesarsenault.com/pages/books/5494/photo-album-including-1939-40-world-s-fair-content-photographs League of Nations pavilion. Taken from a photo album kept by an unidentified young couple documenting their vacations between 1936 and 1940, including a substantial number of photos of the 1939–40 New York World’s Fair. American. Image © 2024 James E. Arsenault & Company. Fair use license. via https://www.jamesarsenault.com/pages/books/5494/photo-album-including-1939-40-world-s-fair-content-photographs The 1939–40 New York World’s Fair opened on April 30th, 1939 in Flushing Meadow, Queens. The first exposition to have a futuristic theme (“World of Tomorrow”), it hosted exhibits by sixty countries, the League of Nations, thirty-three U.S. states, several federal agencies, and the City of New York. By the time the fair closed on October 26th, 1940, over forty-four million people had visited the fair.
More about the 1939-1940 Worlds Fair here, a post from my fellow WordPress blogger who blogs on transporation.
